That is correct. The <gap> element was originally named <omit>, and
all references to it under that name should have been replaced.
We missed one, in the <damage> tag documentation, somehow.
I am grateful to Syd and others for helping track down this sole
surviving shadow of a reference to a non-existent element... which I
have just extirpated from the source. Regrettably, this be visible
in the text until the next time we regenerate a P4X version however.
|> The *Guidelines* (May 1999 reprint) pg.745 refers to an <omit> tag
|> in a context which suggests that this would offer the obvious
|> solution. However, I cannot see any other reference to this tag,
|> and a grep on the P3 and P4 .dtd files doesn't reveal that it is
|> lurking there.
|I think the OMIT element of P2 became the GAP element in P3. There
|don't seem to be any other references to the OMIT element in the
|1999-05 reprint of the Guidelines *except* on page 745, where OMIT
|is said to be used for source texts that are completely illegible
|due to damage.
|
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